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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Monday 1 August 2022?Good morning world and good morningWordle! The staying power that this simple word puzzle game has demonstrated in the popular consciousness is incredible. Long after we’d all filled our boots with as many hours ofElden Ringas we could want, here were still are, day after day, playing Wordle.
On this page, you’ll find a few hints to help you out with today’s Wordle answer if you find yourself stuck. Alternatively, if you’re just in search of the full answer and/or its definition, scroll down below the video to view the spoiler.
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Wordle August 1 hints
Strugglingwith the Wordle answer today? Here are a few clues to help you out:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 1
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
QUART.
A quart usually refers to a quarter of a gallon of liquid, although you can measure some solid goods in what’s known as “dry quarts” as well. Quarts are still used quite commonly as a measurement in the USA, but most other parts of the world now use the metric system, making “quart” sound like quite an old-timey word to my British ears. Nevertheless, the British imperial measurement system does also include quarts. However, a British imperial quart equates to 1.13 litres, whereas the US customary quart contains 0.94 litres (or 1.10 if it’s a dry quart), because… well… imperial measurements don’t actually have to make sense; that’s why hardly anyone uses them any more! In sharp contrast to Wordle, which it seems like almost everybody uses every day; so be sure not to spoil today’s answer for anybody now that you know it!
How to play Wordle
Wordle is a very straightforward word guessing game. The aim is to guess the correct five-letter word in just six guesses. With each guess, the individual letters of your chosen word will highlight green if they’re in the correct place, or yellow if they’re in the wrong place. If a letter doesn’t appear in the solution word at all, it’ll remain unhighlighted.
How did Wordle begin?
Are any Wordle words not allowed?
You can type in pretty much any five-letter word in the English language and Wordle will accept it as a guess. However, the answer is picked each day from a much smaller list of more common five-letter words. There are still thousands of possible answers, of course, but it means the answer will never be a word as obscure as, say, “THIOL”, or “CAIRD”, or “MALIC” (yes, those are all real words).
There are very occasional words which the New York Times will choose not to publish as the day’s Wordle answer, perhaps for reasons relating to recent news or politics. For example, shortly after news broke that Roe v Wade might be overturned in the United States, the NYT decided to change the March 30th word from “FETUS” to “SHINE”, as the feeling was that the word “fetus” was too politically charged a word in the context of recent events.
The New York Times has also been careful never to allow what they consider to be rude words as the answer to a Wordle puzzle. But of course there’s nothing stopping you from using even the dirtiest of words as guesses, as long as they’re accepted words in the dictionary, and as long as you realise that they’ll never end up being the answer.
Is Wordle getting too easy for you?
If after all that Wordle is still too easy for you, then you could always try one of the many other Wordle-inspired games online that have cropped up over the past year. One of our favourites isWorldle, in which you must guess a country of the world based on its shape. There’s alsoWaffle, which is about swapping letters in a completed grid to complete all the words;Moviedle, which shows you an entire movie in a tiny space of time and challenges you to guess the movie within six guesses; andQuordle, which tasks you with solving four Wordles at once with the same guesses.
Kind of a tricky one today, wasn’t it? If it had you feeling frustrated, why not check out our guide to thebest Wordle starting wordsto give you a leg-up next time? We also have a list of all thepast Wordle answers, if you really want to go hard mode and check all your potential guesses against used-up solutions.
Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments! Just pop your current guesses in the grid and watch the tool instantly give you all the potential answers.
